1. Callimachus
Semantic Web Applications Made Easy
Dublin Core Conference
15 October 2009
Seoul, Republic of Korea
David Wood
david@zepheira.com
Creative Commons BY-NC-SA. Some Rights Reserved.
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2. Καλλίμαχος of Cyrene
c. 305–c. 240 BCE
• Father of Bibliography (The Pinakes)
at the great Library at Alexandria
• Could not categorize his own work
in Aristotle’s hierarchical system
“Mega biblion, mega kakon”
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5. 1. Object-RDF mapping
2. RDF
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6. The painter... does not fit the paints to the world.
He fits himself to the paint.
-- Paul Klee
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8. Web Browser
1) client requests
a resource
Formatting 2) Resource is transformed Server
Javascript into HTML on server
4) HTML is decorated
via DOM injection
Ali Baba
Web Form
window.xsl
Data Profile Object-RDF
3) server responds with
XSLT
mapping
HTML Web Form
engine.xsl
RDF/XML of resource
XSLT
RDF Store
User
Mulgara
Domain-specific Components
Process steps
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12. <div about="?concept" typeof="skos:Concept">
<h2>
<a property="skos:prefLabel" href="?concept"></a>
</h2>
<div rel="skos:inScheme">
<a about="?scheme" property="dc:title" href="?scheme"></a>
</div>
<p property="skos:note"></p>
<style>
.broader:before {content:'&gt;'}
.narrower:before
{content:'&lt;'}
</style>
<div rel="skos:broader">
<span about="?broader" class="broader">
<a property="skos:prefLabel" href="?broader"></a>
</span>
</div>
<div rel="skos:narrower">
<span about="?narrower" class="narrower">
<a property="skos:prefLabel" href="?narrower"></a>
</span>
</div>
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13. skos:ConceptScheme a owl:Class;
meta:cache-control "must-revalidate";
:view </ASN/view-scheme.xml>;
:edit </ASN/edit-scheme.xml>;
:icon </images/48px-Book.png>.
skos:Concept a owl:Class;
meta:cache-control "must-revalidate";
:view </ASN/view-concept.xml>;
:edit </ASN/edit-concept.xml>;
:icon </images/48px-Information.png>.
</2004/02/skos/core/ConceptScheme> a :Template;
:create </ASN/edit-scheme.xml>;
:newPrefix </ASN/scheme/S>.
</2004/02/skos/core/Concept> a :Template;
:create </ASN/edit-concept.xml>;
:newPrefix </ASN/scheme/C>.
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14. </2004/02/skos/core/ConceptScheme#list> rdfs:subClassOf obj:Message;
rdfs:subClassOf [owl:onProperty obj:target; owl:allValuesFrom [owl:oneOf
(</2004/02/skos/core/ConceptScheme>)]];
rdfs:subClassOf [owl:onProperty obj:functionalObjectResponse;
owl:allValuesFrom obj:TupleResult];
meta:operation "list";
meta:rel "alternate";
meta:cache-control "must-reevaluate";
meta:type "application/sparql-results+xml";
meta:transform <#list2html>;
obj:sparql """
PREFIX dc:<http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/>
PREFIX skos:<http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#>
PREFIX :<http://purl.org/ASN/editor#>
SELECT ?uri ?icon ?label ?desc
WHERE { ?uri a skos:ConceptScheme; dc:title ?label
OPTIONAL { ?uri dc:description ?desc }
OPTIONAL { skos:ConceptScheme :icon ?icon } }
ORDER BY ?label ?uri
""".
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20. DSP Support
Clipboard
} list widgets (e.g. select, checkbox group)
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21. Status
• Callimachus is in Beta now.
• Targeting an Open Source site by mid-December 2009, to
be launched at: http://callimachusproject.org
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22. Credits
Callimachus has been supported by:
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23. Credits - CC Licensed
Morph http://www.flickr.com/photos/cheesyfeet/2172614952/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/poper/179970823/ and http://www.flickr.com/photos/iguanajo/
Web
277209483/
Reach http://www.flickr.com/photos/kharied/486001659/
Fair Use of Copyright
Callimachusʼ writings book cover Loeb Classical Publishing
By Permission
3-tier Architecture Public domain
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24. Callimachus
Semantic Web Applications Made Easy
Dublin Core Conference
15 October 2009
Seoul, Republic of Korea
David Wood
david@zepheira.com
Creative Commons BY-NC-SA. Some Rights Reserved.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009